Mirijb / is on Nostr

Early C19 literary and media history scholar, UBC. Settler on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh land. Setter of types, maker of typos. A person whose first object in life is a joke. Rebooted account (original Nov 2022.)

Last Notes

2024-07-02 19:20:29

Brooks’s NYT Bannon interview is notable for its frankness: the goals outlined have already been accomplished. For me the most notable points: (1) the US far right as a female, over-40 movement (white, ofc): a Karen movement. How did this nexus of Stephanie Jones-Rogers’s They Were Her Property (on female enslavers), the PTA, and the rejection of Friedan & Steinem’s visions of white women’s freedom come to pass? (2) the comments on the safety of (N) American Jews are a threat. Not a veiled one.

2024-06-18 07:14:49

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I have only met that guy in Shanghai. No trench coat unfortunately. New York litter is incomparable, it’s true.

2024-06-18 06:52:21

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I will just add that one consequence of the street reselling of dental stuff is that the alleys in my neighborhood are full of discarded flossers.

2024-06-18 06:46:48

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oh, wow. So this is really a thing. I’m so sorry you couldn’t easily find what your friend needed. Around here dental product aisles are often empty, but it’s because people take them to resell on the street. They are only in stock if locked down, and I don’t tend to frequent the locked down kinds of places.

2024-06-18 06:35:58

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thank you for this! Seems like North American Pacific markets are serviced by LG—in pharmacies and groceries in California; via Amazon’s sulphurous drop shipper gang in BC?

2024-06-18 06:18:22

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also, Amazon claims Johnson and Johnson makes it but the website on the package sends you to the Korean head office of LG, which I associate with washing machines that break down a lot.

2024-06-18 06:15:01

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I don’t know? I’m sorry it shrunk. My suspicion of Reach as it now exists is that it has only the word “Reach” on it—no larger corporate info or product info—and, at least here, exists only on Amazon, where most things I buy seem to be either fake or strange one-offs with names like RoIFedz or SuseeSweetEar.

2024-06-18 06:09:46

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PS Reach now exists only on Amazon as a strange own-branded or counterfeit product. And! You have to “subscribe” or buy packs of 6, 8 or 10 at around $9 each. #no

2024-06-18 06:06:37

people in Canada, please help: all dental floss except “flossers” (lengths of floss attached to “disposable” plastic brackets, i.e. plastic waste) and Glide floss (Teflon coated and therefore a source of forever chemicals) appears to have disappeared from the shelves and websites of London Drugs, Shoppers Drugmart, Pharmasave, all Loblaws brands, Safeway, and Save-On Foods. What’s going on? And what’s a sensible human who just wants their Johnson & Johnson/ Reach regular old waxed floss to do?